what car did you learn to drive in?

'78 Mustang II, 302/c4

 

In 1972, I learned to drive "on the road" in my 53 Pontiac, with 3 on the tree.
But, I had 2 years of practice prior to that with field cars at a friends house. They had acres! Learned to drive stick, and we set up barrels and railroad ties to learn how to parallell park.
First time I went out on the road with my dad next to me in the Pontiac, he had no clue I had experience with a clutch other than grampa's tractor.
I was a natural, he thought............

He later found out about the field cars, thought it was pretty clever.

 

1965 english Ford 4-door 4-cylinder 4-speed

 

My Dad's 6 month old '68 GTO, great car to learn to drive in!!!!!!!

 

Brand new '91 S-10 Standard cab short bed, 4.3L w/5spd manual. I was 12 years old. I learned how to squall the tires in all 5 gears...with my dad in the passenger seat telling me how to do it. LOL

 

68 chevelle 327 Three on the tree, with my Dad bitchin the whole time!

 

60 Corvair 700 4 dr. Dad's hand-me-down field-bomber.

 

67 396 caprice.......

 

1965 Mustang GT: fastback, 4 speed,

I'll never forget it.

 

1941 Ford 1 1/2 ton stake truck

 

'66 VW baja. It was my gokart when I was about 11. One cool thing about growning up in the sticks.

 

Back in the summer of 1961 Artesia HS driver's education (So.Cal.) '59 or '60 Lark 4 door 3 speed stick however the last day we got a '59 Chevy Impala 4 door.....OH BOY!!!
First car was a '49 Ford tudor, flathead V8, 3 speed stick, but got my first drivers license in a '57 Ford Fairlane 500 4 door hardtop.

 

1959 IHC 3/4 ton 4x4 pickup. It was a REAL 4x4 and one hell of an iron horse

 

62 Catalina 389 Slim Jim, wide car to parallel park!

 

64 Falcon 4 door 6 .... I was 13 or 14 in 77/78 and had full run of the farm and the surrounding public roads.

That sucker would accelerate to near about 80 MPH in just under a mile...

Traded that car and $900 for the 39 coupe I still own, unfortunately, I have covered more road miles in the Falcon... that is almost funny....

I taught my 12 year old nephew to "drive" (around my work lot) in a 50 Plymouth Coupe, hope it sticks with the kid.

 

My folks' Holden Kingswood, in a grass paddock near Cromwell. They bought the car new. Now I have it. The clutch packed a sad in the weekend, so one more thing to fix.

 

I'm older so mine was a 53 Ford I picked up at the local junk yard my buddy and I would put 50 cents of gas in it and rip around the back roads undid the front shocks and tried to jump a wheelie out of it

 

1949 Chevy 3100

 

my first lesson was with an all wheel drive truck in a field. It usually went wherever it wanted to go and I got to hang on for the ride. My instructor encouraged me to hop in and get comfortable whenever I wanted so I did as often as I could. Sometimes it came with the trailer too. It was a little harder to manouver and very noisy

 

68 VW my dad bought for my mom while he was in Vietnam, I think I was about 10 at the time.

 

My Dad's '52 Chrysler with that half assed, not quite automatic, fluid drive!

 

A '57 Ford 1/2 ton and a '62 Chevy II driven on some illegal
unlicensed back-road excursions. The first car of my own
that I owned (that actually ran, that is!) and drove legally,
was a '69 Buick Wildcat, followed shortly by 283/4 speed '64
Chevelle Malibu SS and a 427 Chev-powered '67 Firebird.
Long before the cars though, there was a long string of both
legally and illegally-driven motorcycles starting at about age
13.

Mart3406
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Learned the basics of driving at 12 in a stock '51 Chevy Fleetline 2-door stick. My dad took me to the local cemetery, swapped seats with me and said: "At least you can't hurt anyone up here..."

I'd love to still have that car, but he traded it in on a new '66 Nova SS 327 4-speed. That car taught me how to DRIVE... and it's a wonder that I survived those years!

 

My Great Grand Pa put me behind the wheel of his 59 Chevy pickup. 6 in a row 4 on the floor . We called the pickup The Blue Goose . Good times.

 

1965 i was 13 did not need a DL to drive an emergency vehicle
57 Chevy 1 ton p/u with a weaver hand crank wrecker
started moving cars in the lot next to my dads shop Pedroli Motors
i backed cars and trucks all over the yard then i was let out on the road
was towing cars before 14

 

Fourteen, started out with a 40 Ford pickup. My brother and I were soon racing the 51 GMC against the 40 in the hayfields. While in High School I would drive anything that would run, my brother on the other hand had his image to worry about. When he screwed up my Dad would punish him by making him drive the family station wagon, or Heaven forbid the 64 Studebaker Commander. This was in the 80's. My brother would rather ride the bus. He missed out. The Stude had a V8 with a three on the tree. The wagon had a 428, both would do decent burnouts.

 

This one! 289 w/C4. Mom's car!



Have A Great Day!

 

!952 Chevy, in 1966 when I was 10 yrs old. The car is still sitting in the same field I learned to drive in.

 

Back in 1956, I had to pass the Ohio state drivers' test in the same vehicle my daddy had taught me in -- a full-blown 1955 Buick Roadmaster. Some two tons of Detroit metal that encumbered every movement I meant to direct to the pavement. My first attempt included an eye test:

“Read the first line on the chart”:

What chart?”
“The chart on the wall.”

“What wall?”

My second test, a month later and with new store-bought glasses, took me up to the parallel-parking test.

AND I ACED IT IN A 1955 ROADMASTER!
I brought that fat behemoth into 6 inches from the curb in one swoop from the starting point after forty-some practice sessions with my dad, and a new set of specs (which didn’t help with the test, just with identifying objects later in life)..

 

My Dad taught me to drive in our '62 Plymouth station wagon, 318 wide block, push button auto. Later I graduated to a '58 Chevy with a 283. I learned how to slam a stick shift (three on the tree! lol) in a Holden pickup during a summer job at Atkins Kroll on Guam in 1971. One of the mechanics also taught me how to side step the clutch and slam a 4 speed in a brand new Chevy Vega. I know, not much power there but it was good practice. Don't know if whoever bought that Vega ever had clutch problems!